Securing External LDAP Connections

19 Oct 2014 https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SecuringOpenLDAPConnections

I was getting the following error when I tried testing with openssl:
error:140790E5:SSL routines:SSL23_WRITE:ssl handshake failure:s23_lib.c:177

The solution? It turns out that /etc/default/slapd needs to be configured to use /etc/ldap/ldap.conf using the following:

SLAPD_OPTIONS="-f /etc/ldap/slapd.conf"